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Secretly, she longs for a life away from the expectations of men. When her father realizes that the future of his family and town will be forever cursed unless he appeases an enraged Aphrodite, he follows the orders of the Oracle, tying Psyche to a rock to be ravaged by a monstrous husband. And yet a monster never arrives. When Eros, nonbinary deity of desire, sees Psyche, she cannot fulfill her promise to her mother Aphrodite to destroy the mortal young woman. Instead, Eros devises a plan to sweep Psyche away to a palace, hidden from the prying eyes of the gods and outside world. There, Eros and Psyche fall in love. Each night, Eros visits Psyche under the cover of impenetrable darkness, where they both experience untold passion and love. But each morning, Eros flies away before light comes to break the spell of the palace that keeps them safe. Before long, Psyche’s nights spent in pleasure turn to days filled with doubts, as she grapples with the cost of secrecy and the complexities of freedom and desire. Restless and spurred by her sisters to reveal Eros’s true nature, she breaks her trust and forces a reckoning that tests them both—and transforms the very heavens in this “brilliant and luminous” (Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author) epic.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9781668035245","publication_date":"20250603","publisher":"Atria/Primero Sueno Press","slug":"the-palace-of-eros","subtitle":"A Novel","title":"The Palace of Eros"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"YAF030020","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Greek & Roman Myths for Teens","score":0.7959,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"FIC027300","confidence_band":"medium","label":"LGBTQ+ Romance","score":0.7821,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"FIC027210","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Lesbian Romance","score":0.7725,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"YAF030020","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Greek & Roman Myths for Teens","score":0.7959,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"FIC027300","confidence_band":"medium","label":"LGBTQ+ Romance","score":0.7821,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"FIC027210","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Lesbian Romance","score":0.7725,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"FIC014010","confidence_band":"high","label":"Ancient Historical Fiction","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"FIC027300","confidence_band":"high","label":"LGBTQ+ Romance","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"FIC068000","confidence_band":"high","label":"LGBTQ+ Fiction","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Greek & Roman Myths for Teens","score":0.7959,"slug":"greek-roman-myths-for-teens"},{"label":"LGBTQ+ Romance","score":0.7821,"slug":"lgbtq-romance"},{"label":"Lesbian Romance","score":0.7725,"slug":"lesbian-romance"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in queer, feminist Greek myth retellings"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Sarah Underwood"],"book_id":"9780063234529","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780063234529.jpg?v=49809ecde31c480f","score":0.7747,"title":"Gentlest of Wild Things","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780063234529"},{"authors":["Bea Fitzgerald"],"book_id":"9781464243080","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781464243080.jpg?v=dfd577f27295c0df","score":0.7342,"title":"Girl, Goddess, Queen","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781464243080"},{"authors":["Sarah Underwood"],"book_id":"9780063234475","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780063234475.jpg?v=c59e0e738e9b5f4a","score":0.7291,"title":"Lies We Sing to the Sea","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780063234475"},{"authors":["Anna Ellison"],"book_id":"9780063485044","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780063485044.jpg?v=a77bcfc7cd921bdd","score":0.7161,"title":"Calypso's Odyssey","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780063485044"},{"authors":["Julia Armfield"],"book_id":"9781250344311","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781250344311.jpg?v=ce60fb2ead195c38","score":0.7106,"title":"Private Rites","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781250344311"},{"authors":["Caty Rogan"],"book_id":"9780316610957","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780316610957.jpg?v=c3228c82a8d655c3","score":0.7095,"title":"Kissed by the Gods","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780316610957"},{"authors":["Corvin King","Jacci Prior","Chloe C. 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